The Evanston Chapter of the United Way of the North Shore is distributing grants totalling $584,720 to 23 groups providing health and human service programs serving the city.
Evanston aldermen have decided their commitment to being environmentally friendly doesn't extend to paying 27 percent more to print the quarterly Parks and Recreation magazine on recycled paper.
Evanston city officials say a mistake by a contractor working on the sewer system left many homeowners in south and central Evanston with water backed up into their basements over the weekend.
Music professor Jaishree Prasad played the Veena, a classical Indian musical instrument, at the community room of the Evanston Public Library Sunday afternoon.
Kids along with their favorite teddy bears and parents will attend Rush North Shore Medical Center’s free Teddy Bear Injury Clinic from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, July 26, at the Skokie Park District, Devonshire Center, 4400 Greenwood, Skokie.
Farmer Henry Brockman says he doesn't like the eco-implications of handing out plastic shopping bags to his customers at the farmers' market in downtown Evanston every Saturday.
A rain storm that rolled across town Friday evening knocked out power to hundreds of Evanston residents, as well as to movie-goers at the Century Theater downtown.
Evanston's 23rd annual Ethnic Arts Festival runs from noon to 7 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday in Dawes Park at Sheridan Road and Church Street on the lakefront.
